Word: fires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking for his motion to make the Band one of the five recommended charities, Lionel B. Spiro '60 noted that the organization had suffered "quite a big loss" in the recent fire which destroyed part of the Band's music. The Band, he said, is not able to conduct a drive to raise the money to offset its loss, due to a possible conflict with the Program for Harvard College...
...were lukewarm, but Moneyman Stevens was not bothered, for he is a hardened hand at flops. In eight years, out of $4,000,000 worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A Handful of Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn...
...show move into the black as soon as it began to gross $13,200 a week on the road, production costs have doubled. A Touch of the Poet must take in a minimum of $25,000 a week to break even; A Handful of Fire lost its backers $150,000 before the books were closed. The productions with which Stevens is connected this season will cost a total of $2,000,000 before they all get to Broadway...
...York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, financing deep-sea bathysphere explorations. To save their employees' face, publishers give out biannual bonuses amounting to some 40% of salaries, automatically move their best reporters into administrative jobs at around 35. Not only do the overstaffed papers hardly ever fire anyone, but, as a sort of national face-saving gesture, they yearly hire unnecessary help from Japan's crop of new college graduates...
...MOUNTAIN Is YOUNG, by Han Suy!n (51 I pp.; Putnam; $4.95), is characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...